This book presents several essays analyzing Russia's extensive nuclear agenda and the issues connected with it. It deals with strategy, doctrine, European, Eurasian, and East Asian security agendas, as well as the central U.S.-Russia nuclear and arms control equations. This work brings together American, European, and Russian analysts to discuss Russia's defense and conventional forces reforms and their impact on nuclear forces, doctrine, strategy, and the critical issues of Russian security policies toward the United States, Europe, and China. It also deals directly with the present and future roles of nuclear weapons in Russian defense policy and strategy.

"November 2011." "Strategic Studies Institute book."

Introduction /Stephen J. Blank -- Russian nuclear and conventional weapons : the broken relationship / Dale R. Herspring -- Russia's conventional armed forces : reform and nuclear posture to 2020 / Roger N. McDermott -- Nuclear weapons in Russian strategy and doctrine / Andrei Shoumikhin -- Russia's security relations with the United States : futures planned and unplanned / Pavel K. Baev -- Nuclear weapons in Russian national security strategy / Nikolai Sokov -- Caught between Scylla and Charybdis : the relationship between conventional and nuclear capabilities in Russian military thought / Daniel Goure -- Russia and nuclear weapons / Stephen J. Blank -- Russian tactical nuclear weapons : current policies and future trends / Richard Weitz -- New START and nonproliferation : suitors or separate tables? / Stephen J. Cimbala -- Russia's nuclear posture and the threat that dare not speak its name / Jacob W. Kipp.